I prefer to work with first-time directors. Jake M. Johnson More Quotes by Jake M. Johnson More Quotes From Jake M. Johnson I think a lot of people are very good, but I don't think anybody could do my rhythm. I was thinking, "If you want my rhythm" - and when I was writing, I was writing them for myself - "why am I watching another actor doing what I should be doing?" It was just a really unpleasant experience. Jake M. Johnson writingpeoplethinking If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be talking about this." You do something like use the wrong music, the tone's off, and everything feels off". And I was like, "I'm not going down with this one. I wrote it, but I don't like that play." Then I thought, "Well, no one's producing my stuff, letting me star in it, and direct it at these theaters, so I'll just do them in comedy clubs." Jake M. Johnson starsplaytalking We didn't make money but we never lost money. We'd sit around Times Square with fliers, walk around the Village and try and get people to come. Now you'd just tweet it, but that was the beginning of emails, or the beginning of me doing emails - I'm sure there were people in 1986 who were doing emails. Jake M. Johnson squarestryingpeople We tried to do a show once every three weeks to a month. We'd always do a new show. It was not successful. It did not become the Matt & Ben show, but it taught me what I like to do as an actor and what I like to do comedically. Jake M. Johnson actorsmonthssuccessful If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me. Jake M. Johnson dead-poets-societyseniorteacher Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish. And my level of fear and anxiety of getting injured is greater than my courage. Jake M. Johnson anxietyathleticmind I'm not a guy who sees the desire to transform with each part; I'm not a piece of clay. Jake M. Johnson clayguydesire Some actors pride themselves on disappearing into a role. I'm into the game because I like experiencing and exploring themes, so I put a lot of myself into the person. Jake M. Johnson rolespridegames I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real. Jake M. Johnson fictional-storieshappenedreal I view cats as more like wild animals. We feed it, but a lot of times it's not eating the food because it's murdering other animals outside and eating their meat. Jake M. Johnson catviewsanimal I was in a two-person show [with Oliver Ralli] called the Midwesterners where we wrote all of our own stuff and we traveled the country with it. That's what eventually led me to L.A. Jake M. Johnson stufftwocountry I like dogs, but I have more respect for cats. Jake M. Johnson catdog
